Corona virus: the mystery of Trump’s image

Donald Trump (74) is now back in the White House after a three-day stay at Walter Reed Military Hospital, where he received what is known as a combination of undocumented coronary heart disease drugs.

After returning home, the 74-year-old has declared that he feels in good shape, in fact “better than 20 years ago”.

– Nothing stops it

But even when Trump was hospitalized, he apparently must have been in such good shape that he could do some work for the American people.

In fact, the White House has published photos of him in which on two occasions, according to the caption, he is immersed in work at the hospital.

Treated with undocumented medicine combo

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has shared one of these photos on Twitter, with the text:

“Nothing can stop you from working for the American people. NO INTERRUPTIONS!”

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A photo was taken inside the presidential suite of the hospital.

The president, dressed in a dark suit, sitting here at a small round table and looking to write something on a piece of paper.

The second image is from the hospital conference room.

The president, who has thrown away his suit jacket here, holds a pen in his right hand and appears to be reading from a briefcase that he partially lifts.

The only problem with these photos is that they were taken only ten minutes apart, the most recent on Sunday, October 3.

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• The photo of the presidential suite was taken at 5:25 p.m.
• The photo of the conference room (the one without a jacket) was taken at 17:35.

Based on this information, it is now speculated whether the president really was not as deeply focused on the important presidential work as may appear in the photos.

Mental Muskelflexing

Associate professor of rhetoric, Kjell Terje Ringdal, is among those who believe this is likely to be the case.

– The starting point here is that being sick is not a chess move for people with power, because sickness indicates failure. So the question is how can you present yourself as healthy, despite being a little sick? How can you convey the impression that you are still on the cutting edge, that you have no fever and cannot get the job done?

Ringdal continues:

– Yes, then go for a staging strategy that is a mental flexion with the muscles.

– And from the images, we see that Trump will act in different costumes and scenarios. This is how he wants to convey that this is something that extends over time, something that he has been doing all day; first with the suit jacket on, and then after he has gone to find his own machine in another room, without the suit jacket.

“Power consists”

– This is a script called “Power reigns, power exists and power is fresh,” and the message is “I am president and I work hard for you,” continues Ringdal, who teaches rhetoric, social influence and public relations at Kristiania University College in Oslo

The first speaker emphasizes that such a strategy is not exclusive to Donald Trump.

– Probably any leader would think about it to a greater or lesser degree, he says.

– What shame is it for Trump that this supposed staging is now revealed?

– This is a man who has been caught in more than 20,000 lies. It can do anything without it meaning anything, Ringdal believes.

– I didn’t feel so good

Clean slate

In a Standard article, another dubious element is noted in the hospital photographs.

The sheets that Donald Trump apparently writes on in the first picture, the ones taken in the presidential suite, are blank.

It’s White House reporter Andrew Feinberg, who examined the photos and concluded:

“Donald Trump appears to sign his name on completely blank sheets in this photo”, writes Feinberg on Twitter.

– In that case, he shares his fate with Jack Nicholson in the movie The Hotel of Evil, says associate professor of rhetoric Ringdal.

– It will be like a scam of the scene where it seems that Nicholsen, (in the role of the budding author Jack Torrance) has written the same phrase for weeks, he continues.

Home again

At 0038 on Tuesday night Norwegian time, Trump walked out the gates of the Walter Reed Military Hospital, where he has been hospitalized with covid-19 for three days, since Friday night.

He clenched his fist, gestured and said “thank you” to the press as he walked toward a black pickup, before being ushered to the Marine One presidential helicopter.

At 12:55 he landed in front of the White House and was officially home again.

And when Trump climbed the stairs to the front door, he took the opportunity to remove his bandage and salute the American people while showing his thumbs up.

The incident was filmed by the White House Press Office.and has since been posted on Twitter.